Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 26
You kin make yo' livin' dar w'en you can't make it no whars else.
Who acts: You, yo · What happens: make, w'en, not make · To what, where: w'en
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, yo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 livin | punct |
| 6 | livin | livin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | compound |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 livin | punct |
| 8 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | compound |
| 9 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 whars | det |
| 16 | whars | whar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 whars | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | You | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | w'en | yo | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not make | can | you | w'en | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary whar=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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